MARYLAND MANUAL. 289
Art. Sec.
Election of Delegates .................................................................. 3 6,7
Classification of Senators .................................................... 3 8
Qualification of members ...................................................... 3 9
Persons ineligible to ............................................................... 3 10,11,12
Vacancies, how to be filled.............................. 3 13
Time of meeting ............................................................... 3 14
Time of adjournment ....................................................... 3 15
Compensation of members of.....................---............. 3 15
What books not to be purchased by, for use of
members ................................................................................. 3 16
Disqualified to hold other offices........................................ 3 17
Freedom of debate -.......................................................... 3 18
Powers of each house ..................................................... 3 19
Quorum ........................................................................................... 3 20
Sessions to be open ............................................................. 3 21
Journals to be published -...................................................- 3 22
Imprisonment of disorderly persons................................ 3 23
Powers of House, as grand Inquest.............................. 3 24
special adjournments .............................................................. 3 25
Impeachments .............................................................................. 3 26
Hither House may originate bills...................................... 3 27 ,
Passage of bills ............................................................................ 3 28
Style of laws and mode of enactment.............................. 3 29
Mode of attesting laws........................................................... 3 30
When laws to take effect........................................................ 3 31
Appropriations of money to be made by law............. 3 32
Contingent fund of Governor............................................... 3 32
Statement of use of public money to be published.... 3 32
Divorces not to be granted by............................... 3 33
Local and special laws, what not to be passed........ 3 33
Debts, what not to be contracted..................................... 3 34
Credit of the State not to be granted, when................ 3 34
Proceeds of Internal improvement companies and
State tax ,to be used to pay public, debt..............- 3 34
May borrow fifty thousand dollars without laying
tax, when ............................................................................... 3 34
May contract debts for defence of the State................... 3 34
No extra compensation to be allowed to..................... 3 35
No lottery grant to be authorized by.............................. 3 36
Payment for slaves prohibited................................................ 3 37
Imprisonment for debt prohibited.................................... 3 38
Restrictions upon power to grant bank charters... 3 39
No law to be passed for the taking of private prop-
erty without compensation.......................................... 3 40
Purity of elections .............................................................. 3 42
Wife's property to be protected from husband's
debts ....................................................................................... 3 43
Exemption laws ........................................................................ 3 44
Uniform system of charges by Clerics and Registers
of Wills ............................................................................... 3 45
May receive land from United States............................ 3 46
Contested elections, may provide for.......,-..................... 3 47
Regulation of elections by law............................................ 3 49
Bribery of officials to pass laws relating to .................... 3 50
Taxation of personal property........................................ 3 51
Appropriations for private claims........................................ 3 52
Witness not incompetent on account of race or color 3 83
Habeas corpus not to be suspended by.......................... 3 55
To pass laws to execute vested powers......................... 3 56
Rate of Interest may be fixed by......................................- 3 57
Foreign corporations to be taxed.................................. 3 58
Address of, to remove Judges............................................ 4 4
To provide compensation for Court officers.................. 4 9
May prescribe sessions of Court of Appeals.............. 4 14
May provide Judge of Supreme Court in Baltimore 4 38
To fix compensation of Judges of Orphans' Courts-
Courts ..................................................... 4 40
Coroners, Elisors and Notaries, appointment and
duties may be regulated by......................................... 4 45
Reports of Comptroller and Treasurer to................... 6 2-4
Amendments to Constitution by, how made.................. 14 I
Librarian, State ..................................................... 7 3
Lotteries, prohibited ............................................................. 3 36
Lunatics not to be entitled to vote................................... 1 2
Majority of each House to be a quorum............................ 3 20
Of each House required to pass bills............................ .1 28
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